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"Shooting is giving shape to my dreams. This is how Elza Cohen defines her relationship with photography, which began late in the eighties, after years of working as a cultural producer and music curator on the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo axis. Today, photography is his main profession, living and working on the … Read More

"Shooting is giving shape to my dreams. This is how Elza Cohen defines her relationship with photography, which began late in the eighties, after years of working as a cultural producer and music curator on the Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo axis. Today, photography is his main profession, living and working on the São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro bridges as demanded. He has published works in important publications and divides his time between his "autoral" photography and commercial photography. She never leaves without a camera, Elza is a fan of capturing portraits of strangers on the streets (especially the female universe) and listening to her stories, knowing them. He likes to play with light and shadow and often uses object interferences in front of the lens to create different effects with bursting colors, half blurred similar to analog photography. His portraits are a mixture of strength and delicacy, the aesthetics of his photos are inspired by dreams, nature hybridized with the urban, the language of cinema and paintings.
Fan of the works of director Sofia Coppola, Samira Makhmalbaf and the photographs Tomoko Sawada, Petra Colins and Shirin Neshat ... ..
His motivation is to inspire the viewer to think, feel what he felt and communicate those emotions through his photos. Read Less